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All right, you can go and be seated and see if you were here when cord had to leave the singing without a piano player.

You understand why he said that I wasn't here, but I heard about this one.

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All right, and fathers.

Hope you already had a good Father's Day morning and Josh.

All right.

Well good morning, everyone and Happy, Father's Day to all the dads out there.

Glad you're in church this morning and if you have your Bible with you, which I hope you do turned with me to the book of 1st Timothy, the book of 1st Timothy.

I'd like to draw your attention once again to this book 1st Timothy and we're going to be in chapter number. 1 chapter number 1, we recently began a new Sunday school series looking at this book and we're going to go through it and for the next you know, few months for sure, we are going to be spending our time.

So I won't need to tell you where to turn in future weeks.

You can you can have your Bible ready to go to the book of 1st Timothy.

But it's um, It's interesting because you, when you read through this letter, that Paul wrote to Timothy, you'll notice something several things.

In fact that jump out that delighted the Apostle Paul things that brought him joy in his life and the Christian Life certainly has has so many joys and wonderful, things are blessings throughout it and, you know, we can share.

And as we read this letter, the joys that will be bringing up that the Apostle Paul had.

Those are similar Joyce and the exact same things that you and I can also share the Lord wants his children to have Delight.

It's the Christian life is not meant to be one where we walk around, just waiting for eternity, waiting for heaven.

You know, as we think about our future, I really don't know why we could ever be sad if you're ever sad or down.

Just start thinking about glory and your perspective should.

Change pretty quick.

We have so much to look forward to.

If you're saved this morning the Lord has a home in heaven for you.

Eternity in glory things that are unspeakable.

The Apostle Paul wrote about that.

When he got a glimpse of what is awaiting us, things that are unspeakable.

And so we have a lot of things but you know the Lord wants us to have a life of delight and blessing here.

And now and in fact the first lesson that we looked at and we finish this up last week was one of Paul's greatest Delights and it was the Delight of discipleship.

You may remember that lesson from last week discipleship or you know today's term might be mentoring or discipleship is a is more of a Christian Baptist term, perhaps a Bible term.

But mentoring in the first 2 verse Chapter number one, you'll notice that the weight Paul refers to Timothy here.

He referred to him as my own son in the face and that was a really a term of endearment as he's writing to Timothy hear Paul mentioned this last week he had one Timothy to Christ.

So he had seen through a through traveling there and feed 1 Timothy to Christ and seen him.

Get saved several years earlier and we know that Paul had a huge impact on the life of Timothy Timothy was younger than Paul Paul trained him for the ministry.

And what Paul has seen is he had come back and found Timothy serving God, I found him faithful and we had really found Timothy filling his shoes.

The things that the Apostle Paul was doing now he's looking in Timothy do those very same things and continuing the ministry that the Apostle Paul had started and what a joy, what a joy that brought and it was a delight to the Apostle Paul.

And in the lesson last week, we saw that mentoring requires really two things.

The first is it requires taking an interest, you can't Mentor or disciple.

Someone if you really are just focused on yourself, you have to take an interest in someone else and it also requires a plan and requires a plane and we talked about that.

This was a delight to Paul.

This was one of his Delights and we all we have to do, is read the introduction to this letter.

And you can you can sense and you can hear the Delight in as Paul writes this.

But, you know, we talked about How does this relate to us in and our Timothy's?

The Timothy's in our life?

And, you know, as parents I think this is, this is mostly how we we covered the lesson as parents.

We have a responsibility to our kids, we have a great responsibility to disciple or Minter.

Our kids, you know, the children of our flesh.

But then spiritually, speaking, we also have a duty and the opportunity to Mentor or disciple those that perhaps we've won for Christ or maybe we've invited them to church and or maybe maybe they're, they're newly saved and they're young Christians.

There, they're young and their faith and you can give the ability or the the time to take an interest in them and see them grow in the things of the Lord, and those are delites being a parent is a delight, being a dad.

Is a delight to see your kids.

Come up and in the things of God but I'm reminded of the, the book of third John verse number for where.

It says this.

I have no Greater Joy than to hear that.

My children walk in truth.

You know, it's a delight to descend your kit.

Many of you parents.

I, I still have three kids in the home, that many of you have kids out of the home, and you have seen them go on into life on their own and really there is no Greater Joy in the life of a parent.

I believe then to see them being Godly strong, you know, walking in the truth and that is a joy to the parents but you know, they can be the same.

You may not have kids of your own and that's fine.

But you can still have that same impact on the life of young babes in Christ, young Christians.

You can, you can have that.

Cleaner or mentoring.

This was the July 12th this morning.

I want us to draw our attention to the first danger that we read about in the letter here.

In 1st Timothy we talked about the first Delight the Delight of discipleship in the blessing that that was to the Apostle Paul but then he gets right in to the next section versus number 3.

And down through verse number 11 and I want to draw your attention to the first danger that we read about its founded verse number 6.

And it is the danger of swerving the danger of swerving.

So let's just read this portion scripture.

I'll read you could follow along.

Beginning Denver's, number three of 1st, Timothy Chapter number 1, the Bible says this is our desire is soft key to abide, Paul is riding here, again to Timothy, I besought the to abide still at Ephesus.

When I went in to Macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no.

Weather Doctrine, neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions rather than Godly edifying, which is in faith.

So, do now the end of the Commandment is Charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.

And of unfeigned, Faith verse number 64, which some having swerved have turned aside intervene jangling Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding, neither what they say, nor whereof, they affirm.

But we know that the law is good.

If a man use it lawfully, knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the Lawless and disobedient for the ungodly in for Sinners for Unholy and profane for murderers of fathers and mothers of mothers form and Slayers for whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind.

Find for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons.

And if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound Doctrine.

According to the Glorious, the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Let's stop there.

And ask for the Lord's blessing on our lesson are the only father, we thank you for this time to be in your house.

So we thank you for a church that stands for the truth stands for your word and we thank you for the the word that we have in our laps this morning and your word.

I pray that we would, you would speak to us this morning as we go through it and study, this portion of scripture, be with each of the other Sunday School classes where they would be a time of that a fine in Jesus name.

Amen.

And show the first danger that we see here found in verse number 6, the dangerous swerving Paul writes for which some having swerved have turned a Side intervene jangling, you know, at this point in in time and I mentioned this couple weeks ago, Paul had been released from his first Roman imprisonment, this was in, you can read about that in the book of Acts chapter 28 and one of the things that Paul did as he got out of prison, they're in from, is he immediately travel Eastward back toward some of the churches that he had established in Asia and parts of Europe?

One of those churches was the church there in Ephesus and Paul had Paul left there and we ended up going into Macedonia and we know that Timothy young Timothy was left there in the church in Ephesus to deal with the dangers.

In verse number 3, we read about this in.

The Bible says, is I Paul says, I besought the Timothy to abide still at Ephesus.

He left Timothy in Ephesus and he says when I went in to Macedonia and he says I left you enough assistant that my discharge them or charge some that they teach no other Doctrine.

And we talked about how Timothy was left there and asked us has to deal with these dangers and in five short in five short years, Things had begun to change in this church things things really took a change.

Paul had been in Ephesus 5 years prior and it left but the chit, the church and changed and only five years and turn over to the book of Acts, it may be hard for you to see.

I realize the verse on the screen is is a little smaller font for those in the back row, but Acts chapter 20 and verse number 28.

In this passage of scripture, we see hear Paul is leaving a fascist.

And you know what?

He thought would be his last time there in Ephesus and he's heading to Jerusalem.

And then he spent two years in Cesery of before heading to Rome.

So, we're talking about a span of about five years time from when Paul was had been in Ephesus.

And when you call a when you, when you read the The Narrative of Paul's travels here, he went to a place called my leaders and he called for the pastures of Ephesus to come and he gave discharge.

And so here in the book of Acts chapter 20, we're going to begin reading, inverse number 28.

This is the message that the Apostle Paul had given to the pastor's in Ephesus.

There were there were several pastors there and he says this inverse.

Number 28 of Acts chapter 22 the pastors.

He says, take he, therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers to feed the Church of God, which has purchased, which he has purchased with his own blood.